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Adina Maglan

Adina Maglan

PhD Researcher at Bournemouth University in Race Equity and Communities; Director & Co-founder of Social Equity Centre; policy and community development specialist focused on Eastern European migrant communities and equalities.

Jul 23, 2026

11:01
Adina?
11:02
Yes, I'm happy to answer from a community perspective and a cultural perspective.
11:07
So the idea of setting up a new body, a new strategic organization that unites experts that are also representative of the Romanian community stemmed from conversations that took place last year in the summer.
11:23
I attended the EU Citizens' Gathering in Manchester, where Riad Karim, who's an assistant director in the NHS, approached me because it was a concern from the NHS around vaccinations and immunizations of Romanian children and Romanian adults as well.
11:39
And he was very keen to find out more culturally relevant insights in how to better engage and have stronger results in terms of engaging with the Romanian communities in London on these topics that are also quite culturally sensitive.
11:53
And I think the success of that, taking the conversation further and having this event in November last year, which brought together 70 people, professionals from different public health areas, health as such.
12:05
We talk about NHS, local authorities, researchers from universities with a specialism in public health, but also community organizations.

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34:01
I'm assuming that because with a census, they would be asked to tick the box white other rather than specify their own nationality, you know?

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